This was the kind of Red Zone failure that sticks in the throat. The Jacksonville Jaguars went to London, moved the ball enough to create three red zone trips, and still came away with zero touchdowns against the Philadelphia Eagles. That is not bad luck. That is a damaging failure to finish.
When you get all the way to 1st and Goal at the one-yard line and still cannot find the end zone, the problem is not subtle. The Jaguars gave themselves chances, then handed those chances back. In a game decided by margins, that is the margin that matters.
Empty trips, brutal outcome
The scoreline tells the story. Jacksonville reached scoring range three times and did not turn any of them into touchdowns. That is exactly the sort of Red Zone inefficiency that turns a competitive performance into a frustrating one. It also explains why the Eagles were able to leave London with the win after Jake Elliott made a 48-yard field goal.
There was late drama, of course. At 3:20 in the fourth quarter, Jacksonville finally scored a touchdown on a fourth-down pass from Trevor Lawrence to Parker Washington. But by then the bigger damage had already been done. The Jaguars had already spent too many promising possessions without the payoff that good teams demand.
That is the harsh truth here: three red zone trips, zero touchdowns. Against a disciplined opponent like the Eagles, that is not a footnote. It is the game.
Why it matters
The Jaguars did enough to stay around. They did not do enough to control the outcome. In the NFL, that distinction is often ruthless, and London made it plain. The Eagles could survive one late Jacksonville strike because the Jaguars had already wasted too much of what they created.
There will be plenty of talk about the finish, about the field goal, about the fourth-quarter moments. Fair enough. But the real problem was earlier, inside the red zone, where Jacksonville repeatedly failed to turn opportunity into points. That is the part they will have to live with.
So yes, the Jaguars had three red zone trips. No, they did not score a touchdown on them. And that is why they left London with a result they could easily have been chasing the entire way.
